Social Stratification
Social Class
Theories of Social Class
Socioeconomic Status
Social Mobility
100

The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy

What is Social stratification?

100

An elite and largely self-sustaining group who possess most of the country’s wealth; they constitute about 1 percent of the U.S. population

What is Upper class?

100

A system of social stratification based on a hereditary nobility who were responsible for and served by a lower stratum of forced laborers called serfs

What is Feudal system?

100

The tendency to choose romantic partners who are similar to us in terms of class, race, education, religion, and other social group membership

What is Homogamy?

100

The movement of individuals or groups within the hierarchical system of social classes

What is Social mobility?

200

A grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories

What is Social class?

200

The stock of assets held by a person or household at a single point in time

What is wealth?

200

Stratification is necessary to induce people with special intelligence, knowledge, and skills to enter the most important occupations. For this reason, stratification is necessary and inevitable

What is Structural functionalism and Social stratification?

200

The action of marrying or forming a sexual relationship with a person of a superior sociological or educational background

What is Hypergamy?

200

The mobility of the individual or group in the same social class, in the same situation category, without changing the level of power or status

What is Horizontal social mobility?

300

A measure of one's combined economic and social status

What is socioeconomic status (SES)?

300

People who spend 27 weeks or more in a year in the labor force either working or looking for work but whose incomes fall below the poverty level

What is Working poor?

300

Stratification affects people’s beliefs, lifestyles, daily interaction, and conceptions of themselves

What is Symbolic interactionism and Social stratification?

300

The seeking of a spouse of lower socioeconomic status or caste than oneself

What is Hypogamy?

300

A change in the occupational, political, or religious status of a person that causes a change in their societal position

What is Vertical social mobility?

400

The interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage

What is Intersectionality?

400

A situation in which an individual’s varied social positions can have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status

What is Status inconsistency?

400

Social stratification is created by people's differing relationship to the means of production: either they own productive property or they labor for others

What is Marx and Social Stratification?

400

Sexual reproduction involving fusion of unlike gametes often differing in size, structure, and physiology

What is Heterogamy?

400

A system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit

What is meritocracy?

500

Differential access to and use of resources across various domains

What is Social inequality?

500

Constituting the class of salaried employees whose duties do not call for the wearing of work clothes or protective clothing

What is White collar?

500

Stratification is an organized manifestation of unequal power in society separated into three spheres of activity for analytical purposes: economic, social and political, and, within each sphere, power is designed according to class, status and party

What is Weberian Theory?

500

More susceptible to less healthcare, education, work and income, relationship and criminal justice

What is people with lower socioeconomic statuses?

500

Pertains to a person's capacity to alter their station relative to the economic status of their parents or grandparents, essentially the flexibility within a society to allow individuals to grow regardless of their initial station

What is Intergenerational mobility?

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